According to Walter Mossberg, “The personal computer industry is on the verge of a crisis.†Mossberg, who is personal technology writer for The Wall Street Journal, tells National Public Radio that when it comes to viruses, worms, span and spyware, the big Windows-based technology firms have no good fix. “You really have to spend a lot of your personal time, money, and energy caring for the computer instead of the computer actually doing stuff for you,†he says.
People are forced to buy separate programs with no interoperability requiring multiple updates.